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Lasswell, Harold D., "The Uses of Content Analysis Data in Studying Social
Change," Social Sciences Information, 7(February 1968), 57-70.
Leser, Conrad, Econometric Techniques and Problems, New York: Hafner,
1966.
Lewin, Kurt, Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers,
New York: Harper Brothers, 1951.
A
source book of the thought and methods of Kurt Lewin. All papers
were originally published elsewhere, but this represents a convenient
compilation.
Lovell, John P., The Study of the Military in Developing Nations: Devising
Meaningful and Manageable Research Strategies, Bloomington, Ind.:
Department of Government, Indiana University, 1967.
Massarik, Fred and Philburn Ratoosh, Mathematical Explorations in Behavior-
al Science, Homewood, 111.: Richard D. Irwin Co., 1964.
Reports the current theoretical and empirical inquiry in the social
and behavioral sciences as proposed by a variety of mathematical models.
The central feature of the book
is its concern with empirical research
and data gathering as it relates to making models operational.
Meadows, Paul, "The Metaphors of Order: Toward a Taxonomy of Organization
Theory," in Llewellyn Gross (ed.), Sociological Theory: Inquiries and
Paradigms, New York: Harper & Row, 1967, 101-10.
Morse, Philip M. (ed.), Operations Research for Public Systems, Cambridge,
Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967.
Nagel, Ernest, The Language of Social Research, Glencoe, 111.: The Free
Press, 1955.
North, R. C. and others, Content Analysis: A Handbook with Application for
the Study of International Crisis, Evanston, 111.: Northwestern Univer-
sity Press, 1963.
A
valuable introduction to a useful research technique. Includes
concrete illustrations plus guides for deciding whether, when, and what
form of content analyses should be used. Special forms discussed in-
clude the conventional frequency count and qualitative identifications,
sorts, pair-comparisons, and evaluative assertion analysis.
Rejai, Mostafa, "Toward the Comparative Study of Political Decision-
Makers ," Com^arative^^ 2(October 1969), 349-60.
Rokkan, Stein (ed.), Comparative Research Across Cultures and Nations,
Paris and Hague: Mouton, 1968.
Schlaifer, Robert, Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions: An
Introduction to Managerial Economics under Uncertainty, New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1959.
Vickers, Geoffrey, The Art of
Judgement: A Study of Policy-Making, New
York: Basic Books, 1965.
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